Using Your Personal Experience and Expertise to Formulate an Investment Thesis It’s time to take an in-depth look at distressed debt investing and how you can use your personal experience together with company valuation methods to make decisions. Most investors will want to enter the distressed investing space by relying on the expertise of various funds that focus on these types of investments. Thus, I’ll address the constraints an individual investor faces and how one determined to make their picks can gain an advantage over others in the markets. You […]

Learn how to read a balance sheet, or more importantly, how to read between the lines of the balance sheet assets, liabilities, and equity.

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Chilled Credit Bidding and the Section 363 Sale Section 363(k) of the Bankruptcy Code (the “Code”) allows a secured creditor to bid at a section 363 sale and use the amount of their claim to offset the purchase price at the sale, called “credit bidding.” A court may limit this right “for cause.” The “for cause” standard is not defined in the Code, and disagreement exists as to what constitutes “for cause.” Traditional bases for limiting credit bidding include challenges related to the lien itself, failure to correctly assert the […]